Matt gave us an easy one, which was perfect because I had a hectic weekend and this slotted in perfectly at about 17 minutes puzzle+meta (plus 4 more for google meta verification).

I liked the main joke in the theme answers… oh! and I should say that while The Departed was a fine movie, it is based on Hong Kong movie that is better.  I don’t love Hong Kong films, but “Infernal Affairs” is a great movie.  

The puzzle is here and my log is after cut.

Log:

0:00:00

Have a printout, reading blog post

0:00:23

classic topping, shortest of 5. got it.

0:00:58

2D NEVE easy in

0:01:15

8D/A got both, one from my studying to be on a game show some day.

0:01:57

9,11,12,13 NAB OLGA LIED ACLU.. GARLIC 16A, EVERYTHING BAGEL 17A

0:02:51

GRABON PESO NAPOLI gets me out of that corner

0:03:48

7,6,5D DIS REHEAT ATT

0:04:08

DEPARTED 14A (The original was much better)

0:04:54

rest of top left done.

0:05:19

28A is CTRL, so NAPOLI is NAPLES. fine.

0:06:21

25,29,37D SOOTY RASPY RYDER all fall. all with Ys.

0:06:47

30A ONION my 2nd topping. let’s do the east.

0:07:15

IMEAN, MBA, OBAMA, NATO. that was ok.

0:07:50

SOOTY looks wrong, since 39A probably ends MESS TO EAT

0:08:30

40D EMDASH, 41D ONDEMAND

0:08:49

POMP, SCHMO, DYNE. no real tough parts, this week.

0:09:22

Oops, my Y looked like a T. MESSY TO EAT is fine. SOOTY is fine.

0:09:55

35D POPPY [SEEDS], our 3rd topping

0:10:29

JOSEPH/JIVE/VIA (blogging really hurts crossword time on ones like this flow pretty easily. That’s my excuse, anyway)

0:11:32

W done. only 50A and later left.

0:12:12

ROWER OSHA NEARER got me into the bottom

0:12:40

HEF, FEMINIS?, EMO

0:13:14

ROADTAX, AGIT, MENA (so FEMININE for 67A)

0:13:39

mmm, UMAMI. my favorite.

0:14:26

heh, EVERYWHERE BAGEL

0:14:47

SESAME [SEEDS] is our fourth

0:15:59

stuck a bit in SW, all that’s left.

0:16:40

all done, broke in with MESH. ok, so GARLIC ONION POPPY SEEDS, SESEAME SEEDS. The fifth is… salt?

0:17:48

shortest… EGG .. in the bagel.. SALT? hmmm.

0:21:31

Can’t find anything official, but found a recipe with SALT, so I’m going to google a bit more, but put probably going with SALT.